I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.”
“I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.”
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.”
“I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.”
“I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.”
“I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!”
“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made”
“I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.”
“I see Hawaiian spirits atop Mauna Kea.”
“I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“I see, he said, that you no longer
wish to resume your former life,
to move, that is, in a straight line as time
suggests we do, but rather (here he gestured toward the lake)
in a circle which aspires to
the stillness at the heart of things,
though I prefer to think it also resembles a clock.”
Source: Winter Recipes from the Collective
“I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.”
“I see her again.”
Source: My Caramel
“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”
“I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.”
“I see her breaking down and scattered in pieces and I do smile. For, I know she's known the art of being glued back on her own for so long.”
“I see her in the stars,” he said breathlessly. “I see her in the great lake that surrounds this glorious academy. I see her everywhere.” He looked drunk on love. “She is but a light and I her moth. I can’t help but be drawn into her soft beauty and her wilful manner.”
Source: Torn
“I see her in what is beautiful or interesting or sad, which is to say that I see her in everything. She is nowhere tangible, which is to say that she is everywhere.”
Source: The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
“I see her perfect breasts in all their natural glory, hovering before me, making a mockery of Isaac Newton.”
Source: My Ivory Summer
“I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.”
“I see him as a god from elsewhere who has lost his way . . .”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.”
Source: Promise at Dawn
“I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.”
“I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.”
“I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.”
“I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.”
“I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.”
“I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani.”
"I don’t tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.”
Source: Burned
“I see how it is,” I snapped. “You were all in favor of me breaking the tattoo and thinking on my own—but that’s only okay if it’s convenient for you, huh? Just like your ‘loving from afar’ only works if you don’t have an opportunity to get your hands all over me. And your lips. And . . . stuff.”
Adrian rarely got mad, and I wouldn’t quite say he was now. But he was definitely exasperated. “Are you seriously in this much self-denial, Sydney? Like do you actually believe yourself when you say you don’t feel anything? Especially after what’s been happening between us?”
“Nothing’s happening between us,” I said automatically. “Physical attraction isn’t the same as love. You of all people should know that.”
“Ouch,” he said. His expression hadn’t changed, but I saw hurt in his eyes. I’d wounded him. “Is that what bothers you? My past? That maybe I’m an expert in an area you aren’t?”
“One I’m sure you’d just love to educate me in. One more girl to add to your list of conquests.”
He was speechless for a few moments and then held up one finger. “First, I don’t have a list.” Another finger, “Second, if I did have a list, I could find someone a hell of lot less frustrating to add to it.” For the third finger, he leaned toward me. “And finally, I know that you know you’re no conquest, so don’t act like you seriously think that. You and I have been through too much together. We’re too close, too connected. I wasn’t that crazy on spirit when I said you’re my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don’t matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. Running away and fleeing all your problems isn’t going to change that. You’re just going to end up scared and confused.”
“I already feel that way,” I said quietly.
Adrian moved back and leaned into his seat, looking tired. “Well, that’s the most accurate thing you’ve said so far.”
I grabbed the basket and jerked open the car door. Without another word, I stormed off, refusing to look back in case he saw the tears that had inexplicably appeared in my eyes. Only, I wasn’t sure exactly which part of our conversation I was most upset about.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“I see how lost the elder son is. He has become a foreigner in his own house. I know the pain of this predicament. In it, everything loses its spontaneity. Everything becomes suspect, self-conscious, calculated, and full of second-guessing. There is no longer any trust. Each little move calls for a countermove; each little remark begs for analysis; the smallest gesture has to be evaluated. This is the pathology of the darkness. I cannot forgive myself. I cannot make myself feel loved. By myself I cannot leave the land of my anger. I cannot bring myself home.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.”
“I see how the gaping abyss between those who have much and those who have nothing can cause dangerous fractures in society. I see how power corrupts, how the people are manipulated and kept in their place. I see all of that, Professor Vallejo. But I am always left wondering if the fighting is worth so many dead. This country has been torn apart by authority-hungry men in all realms - in business, politics and religion. It is the ordinary people who are crushed like ants underfoot. That is what happens. That is the only comment I have.”
Source: A Dangerous Place
“I see how you look at me,” spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It’s because he can’t accept the hate inside of himself that he projects it onto us.”
Source: JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
“I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.”
“I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.”
Source: Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, Including Letters of Barrow, Flamsteed, Wallis, and Newton, Printed from the Originals in the Collection of the Earl of Macclesfield (published by Stephen Jordan Rigaud)
“I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.”
“I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!”
Source: Mary Reilly
“I see I’ll have to take drastic measures to ensure intelligent conversation around here.”
– Dread Empress Maledicta II, before having the tongues of the entire Imperial court ripped out”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“I see, I saw, I have seen it all.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 17, 2016”
“I see, I saw, I have seen it all.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 17, 2017”
“I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.”
“I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.”
“I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.”
“I see in activism a kind of futility. The real power is in doing.”
“I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.”
Source: Witness
“I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.”
“I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God.”